Mirror's Edge Comments by Christian Donlan

This has to be in my top 5 most anticipated games this year, but only if the controls for the free-running bits are good enough to make it all exciting and flowy. Still, +1 for blue sky in game.

This looks absolutely incredible, really hope they nail it.

"PC version will be massively superior"

snore

Parkour, the sport of choice for Darwin awards

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBbJFyHKE...

I still get the feeling that this is very much an on rails game where it's more important to push the right button at the right time than it is to take things at your own pace and explore a bit. Looks great, but it's the gameplay that i'm not convinced about.

"I still get the feeling that this is very much an on rails game"

Go back and read the article again.

mm.. fps platforming i remain sceptical, will have so demo this before i buy!

looks like singapore

"PC version will be massively superior"

It wont - this is a typical console title.

I hadn't seen anything about this then spotted a trailer for it in a game store wondering what it was ( me being in a gamestore is rare, let alone me seeing a trailer there that I hadn't before and didn't know what the game was) and thought it looked really good, despite the PS3 being the console I don't own.

It looks fresh and well designed, a good first person feel and not (seemingly at least) a same-old same-old concept

P.S. As I got more and more through assasins creed, the auto-pilot seemed to switch off and I ended plumeting tens ofmetres onto the pavement below more and more.

This looks great, can't wait!

Sewer level? Bloody sewer level??

I don't see trying to run about, jumping, melee combat and maneuvering intricately in first person going to work.

Well, melee in first person view can work, just look at Chronicles of Riddick. Worked wonderfully for that game. I'm mostly worried that they'll streamline the controls for the running bit too much. Yeah, it was cool seeing Altair scale his first building in Assassin's Creed, but it got old really fast when all you had to do was hold a couple of buttons pushed down.

If you could marry a game and live happily ever after, THIS could be the one :oD

/drags up obvious non toilet related George Michael reference, soon to be used in EG review tagline
"I gotta have Faith, Faith, Faith..."

Although I didn't much like the game itself, Battlefield BC shows DICE know their way around the PS3. I've got a good feeling about this one. From the original concept (jeez EG, give 'em a break - can't be 100% new ideas) to the trailer (the cinematography and music works so well), there's a real style about. Someone with taste and sensibilities seems to be in control (proper clothes, sensible shoes and human sized norks on a female game hero - who'd have thunk it were possible), so this is next to Wipeout HD on my drool list.

Frod - dream on, buddy. It might have six million times anti mip map volumetric whatever shading or something, but keyboard and mouse? For a fast platformer? Book yourself some RSI treatment now. The graphics won't need the processor horsepower. As Aldo says - it will all be in the controls, and I'm guessing that binary keyboard controls won't cut it.

I'm really looking forward to this, but when ever I see more than 50% of screen shots in the same location I get a little worried!

pc version won't touch the console versions

looks and sounds good, looking forward to it

PC version will be better obviously. (Seriously, get a grip people I don't give a frig what system it is on just buy it if you want to jesus all this ps3lol pclol 360lol shite is boring)

It just looks a little too gimmicky for me. I mean why first person? I probably will check it out when the time comes but it honestly looks a bit mediocre to me IMHO of course.

I, too, am worried that this'll be an AssCreed "hold down one button for amazing climb-y/jump-y feats". Then again, watching the preview videos for AssCreed, it was blatantly obvious that was going to be the case. I haven't seen a video of this. Also, I haven't read this preview because I can't be arsed.

"If you can dream it, you can do it."

Erm, no.

"I mean why first person?"

Have you read anything on this game because I'm pretty sure this question has been answered multiple times... Furthermore, why not?

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Does anyone remember Jumping Flash? Now that was a decent first-person-platformer! Sadly it hasn't been attempted again.

i think only a demo will convince me.

I'm so sick of FPS games not letting me climb over waist-high walls, so with a bit of luck this could be a real shot in the arm for the whole genre. Also it just looks like an amazing game in its own right, I just hope it can live up to its potential.

And people say that UE3 can't do colors...

So, is the PS3 the lead development platform for this?

I think this sounds amazing and I hope they don't screw it up. A few years ago "Body Awareness" became a big buzzword in the gaming press... for about 15 minutes. I don't understand why the industry let it slip for so long (typically in favor of the over-the-shoulder thing.) In the few, limited cases where it's popped up recenltly (eg. in the semi-interactive opening cinematic of The Darkness) I've found it incredibly immersive. It's as exciting to me as the initial introduction of 1st person 3D back in the early 90's - the proper realization of what-you-see-is-what-you-get VR.

Besides which, I'm increasingly aware that jumpy/climby/puzzly games constitute one of my favorite genres. This might be the next evolution in the Tomb Raider/ Prince of Persia lineage - basically, the platformer all grown up.

Wow, just watched the in-game video. Wow.

I hope this turns out as good as it looks!

Will be PC for me, purely because it will be cheaper.

The PC always being better argument is partially valid if your PC is up to it for starters, as for the keyboard and mouse thing, the PC has both, I personally prefer a pad for most games so use my 360 controller but for other games like command and conquer the mouse is perfect (as it should be).

But then again my PC costs more, but its does more as well as games, basically you can go all day with arguments for and against.

Either way looks like this should be some fun.

"PC version will be massively superior..."

...after you've waited 6 months for the patch that finally makes the game playable on your system and bought the additional 15 gigs of ram needed to make the game look (ever so slightly) better than the 360 version

Can't wait for this, has been one to look at for me for a while now. Strikes me as something that could turn out to be 2008's Portal. Not in terms of narrative or quality writing, but in terms of a game with a certain, invigorating clarity of vision and hopefully execution to match.

Here's hoping.

"...after you've waited 6 months for the patch that finally makes the game playable on your system and bought the additional 15 gigs of ram needed to make the game look (ever so slightly) better than the 360 version"

Dude, go back to the hole you crawled out off. You OBVIOUSLY have no idea about PC's.
What kind of an idiotic comment is that about the RAM? Crysis runs fine with 2GB of ram. This game is far from the level of Crysis when it comes to graphics so there's no way it'll require more then 2GB of RAM. And wait 6 months for a patch? Like the console versions don't get patched as well? And btw, a patch usually comes a week or 2 after the game's release if there are critical bugs. And the Xbox360 SUCKS in graphics compared to a decent built PC. And when I install a new game it's playable right away! Only morons like you have issues runing a game on the PC.
Go back to this little Green toy you call Xbox360.

It's hard to disagree with any society where dashing about in fancy split-toe trainers and a Toni and Guy haircut is a crime punishable by death.

You made me snort my tea, you swine.

I thought this was a ps3 exclusive?

The trailer almost even convinced me to buy a ps3!

If it's on other platforms.. then yay!

I don't see trying to run about, jumping, melee combat and maneuvering intricately in first person going to work.

It did work rather well in Dark Messiah of Might & Magic.

The controls are going to make or break this. I also don't see how they will avoid motion sickness issues.

Simulation sickness.

hey at least they aren't using brown and grey all the time

Sinotek -

"What kind of an idiotic comment is that about the RAM?"

I don't know...perhaps one that's been deliberately exaggerated for comic effect?

Perhaps you should go back to your l33t gaming rig and, presumably, spending your time being chronically defensive and insecure.

+1 for the BLUES SKIES! UK:R ought to be pleased with this :P

Nice to see a developer/publisher demoing a PS3 build for a change; is this a first for an EG preview, or just the first time they let it slip? ;)

Perhaps you should go back to your l33t gaming rig and, presumably, spending your time being chronically defensive and insecure.

Hehe, the cheek, after you swallowed frod's bait hook, line and sinker, and went into Defcon 1 mode yourself.

This all sounds fabulous, but there's a problem: if only EA would actually let us have a go at the game ourselves.

In other words we don't even need to wait a review to know it'll suck...

@frod

PC version will be massively superior.

Massively superior? Hmmm...
In any case I hope you'll have fun sitting behind your tiny screen and keyboard. I'll pass though.

What is this? Console fanboys gang up on PC week?

Can we stop this now? Game PC's do cost more to buy than consoles - because they are not heavily subsidised by a big company desperate to force everyone to have its hardware under their TV's (and before you mention MS, I am using PC to mean what it originally meant: Personal Computer. Whether thats Windows, OSX, Linux, Solaris, BSD.....). However, because of this, PC games are also significantly cheaper to buy than console games, as its largely a free market. So lets talk about the price of the system over its lifetime shall we?

And PC gamers play on "tiny screens and keyboards"? My laptop runs on a 17" widescreen by default, but also plugs into my 32" HDTV just like my 360. It also runs at a much higher res, usually without cheating and upscaling, unlike some systems I could mention. And as for the keyboard being seen as a negative, I snort in your general direction! Anyway, is that a wired or wireless keyboard? And Mouse? 360/PS2 controller? Other generic controller? Wii-Mote?

"Hehe, the cheek, after you swallowed frod's bait hook, line and sinker, and went into Defcon 1 mode yourself."

Crumbs! Is today official everyone-is-captain-serious day? :O

"I don't see trying to run about, jumping, melee combat and maneuvering intricately in first person going to work"

Lol.

Given that those things working in a fp view is kind of fundamental to the ENTIRE product, coupled with EA DICE being an experienced studio, we can probably safely assume that they put a fair amount of effort into determining whether ir not that is the case. Rather than just dismissing it out of hand, in our infinite wisdom, based on a movie or two.

I'm very excited about this. If L1 and L2 are up and down, what do all the other buttons do?!